The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-07
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT.

Stephen A. Douglas is in the east ON a
tour of the watering places.
General Miles gets 81 900 sword for
cleaning out Geronimo from the grateful
citizens of Arizona who realize that their
scalps are still ON their heads.
Harriet Beecher Stowe has written a
letter to friend denying that she is in
poor health, She says that she is able to
take a long walk every day and feels
strong and hopeful,
Carl Schurz, while slowly recovering
from the injuries he received from a fall
some months ago, spends most of his
time in playing chess with his daughter,
player, and often entertains his friends
with exhibitions of his skill
The son of Joshua r. Giddings. the old
Ohio Abolitionist, lives at Jefferson, the
county seat of Ashtabnla county. He
practices law and runs farm. but inc
takes very little interest in politics. The
son of Ben Wade lives in the same town.
He gives himself up TO horses and lets
politics alone.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is about 40 wears
of age and worth certainly SIS, 900, 900.
perhaps 1925, 000,0 600 He is a tremen-
|, dous worker, and his friends fear he is
injuring his health by his asSiduous at
tention to the details of his business il
seems strange to think of man working
himself sick when he already has larger
income than he can by any possibility
get rid of. Human nature is a queer
thing.
Chancellor j. Ii. Vincent, of Chautau-
qua, has been presented with pine
gavel made from the famous signal tree
which stood on the summit of Allatoona
mountain, to which Gen. Sherman, from
Kenesaw mountain, fifteen miles away.
signaled to Gen. Corse, over the heads
of the Confederate troops, to hold his
position until Federal re-enforcements
could arrive. The gavel came from Joseph
NJ. Brown, a son of Senator Joseph Z.
Brown.
D. o. Mills is having $1,000 bronze
door made for the tomb that he is build
ing at Tarrytown. 1t will be eight feet
six by four feet six. The style is in imi-
tatioa of the old fashioned oak doors,
with lattice weFk on top. The panel
ing, cross pieces and wood grooves are tc
be repeated in bronze. Three companion
pieces are to be made as windows, They
are 3x4 feet and in bronze lattice work,
Miss Kate Field is the first person who
ever delivered public lecture in Alaska.
The subject of her discourse was entitled
"An Evening with Dickens. a most in
appropriate title, as the lecture began nj
1880 a. m. 1t took place in a dance
house in Juneau, a mining camp. and the
| largest town of the province. Miss Field
had large and attentive audience. Hei
only remuneration was vote of thanks,
dinner at the hotel, and a subscription
to The Free Press, the only paper in
| Alaska.
| Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland speaks
in the highest terms of her brother wife.
She thinks it wonderful thai SO young
and inexperienced a woman should dis
play such grace and dignity as the presi-
dents wife. She made the remark re-
Gently that although Frances was only
90 years of age, the White House was
never presided over by more womanly
mistress, or with a sweeter grace and
dignity. Frances gets iasr qqeenly car
rage from her father said Miss Cleye-
land; 1.-THE shapely head, the gracefully
curved neck, and the dignified bearing
are all inherited from him."
Joseph Garrison, of Harley, Idaho, has
just been notified from Washington that
his claim for pension was allowed. He
claimed back pension since ls4S. By
temporarily waving a heavier claim for
entire disability resulting from wound
ON the head, inflicted by Dowlder thrown
from the roof of house at the storming
of the City of Mexico, he has been allowed
| $i2 per month, with per cent. interest
per annun. since 1S4S, a period of thirty
nine years. Having served in the war OF
the rebellion as a lieutenant in the Second
California cavalry, he expects to get quite
an additional sum. The allowance to him
so fag will secure him over $40, 900, and
when his other claims for increased pen
sion are adjudicated he expects to receive
$4,000 to $40, 900 more.